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Astronomers have had a blockbuster year.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled his support this week for increased funding for a small agency program that funds the flights of research payloads on commercial suborbital vehicles, balloons and aircraft. Spa...

NASA has awarded the Electrical Systems Engineering Services (ESES) III contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) of Greenbelt, Maryland.

Earlier this month, the New Horizons team managed to capture the first images of Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt Object that it will rendezvous on Jan. 1st, 2019 The post New Horizons Sees its Next Target for the First Tim...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Orion space capsule that will send astronauts on a flyby of the Moon just arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for final assembly. The post Construction on the Orion Capsule is Done. Next it’ll be Sent to Florida fo...

What's up with the Sun? As we've said previous, what the Sun isn't doing is the big news of 2018 in solar astronomy. Now, the Sun sent us another curve ball, with the strange tale of growing sunspot AR 2720. The post Are...

Hollywood star Ryan Gosling said Wednesday that he tried to learn to fly to play astronaut Neil Armstrong in an emotional new biopic about the strong but silent space hero.

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Indian engineers have a new, ambitious timeline for putting its astronauts in space, according to a recent set of comments from government leaders, who say the country will achieve the feat by 2022.

Six years after discovering the Higgs boson, physicists have observed how the particle decays -- a monumental contribution to scientists' understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics and the universe at large,...

This week's "Ask A Spaceman" episode explores the radiation echo of the Big Bang that formed our universe. While we can't see it with our eyes, this radiation surrounds us everywhere.

Before too much longer, you could start seeing NASA astronauts' smiling faces on cereal boxes, and Mars rovers emblazoned with corporate logos just like race cars.

Technology image of the week: ESA's Water Hammer Test Bench simulates the vital moment when a satellite's propulsion system first comes to life

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter.

Ambitious climbers, forget Mt. Everest. Dream about Mars.

Canadian startup Kepler Communications announced Aug. 28 it is accepting bids from launch providers to orbit its first-generation constellation of up to 15 cubesats, but with the stipulation that the launches must happen...

New evidence from the asteroid belt and other sources hints at a surprisingly complicated creation story for the giant planet --

NASA's Gemini 5 mission launched astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on a record-breaking mission (for the time) on Aug. 21, 1965. See photos from the historic mission here!

The New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to a distant solar system object and has spotted its destination -- on its first try and from more than 100 million miles (170 million kilometers) away.

The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has been beautifully imaged by ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. By observing in infrared light, VISTA has peered thr...

The European Space Agency and Russia are working together to investigate the moon's resources -- specifically, water ice and other volatiles at the lunar poles.